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experienced an earthquake, down to the time of M. Yarro* ; 

 Mucianus however has informed us, that it has been twice 

 so visited. Aristotle states that this island received its 

 name from the fact of its having so suddenly made its 

 appearance^ on emerging from the sea ; Aglaosthenes, how- 

 ever, gives it the name of Cynthia, and others of Ortygia'^ 

 Asteria, Lagia, Chlamydia, Cynthus, and, from the circum- 

 stance of fire having been first discovered here, Pyrpile. Its 

 circumference is five miles only ; Mount Cynthus'' here 

 raises his head. 



Next to this island is Ehene*, which Anticlides calls by 

 the name of Celadussa, and Callidemus, Artemite ; Scyros , 

 which the old wTiters have stated to be twenty miles in cir- 

 cumference, but Mucianus 160 ; Oliaros' ; and Pares*, with 

 a city of the same name, distant from Delos thirty-eight 

 miles, and famous for its marble^ ; it was first called Platea, 



^ That is, according to Varro, whose statement is ridiculed by Seneca. 

 Some of the editors, however, punctuate this passage differently, making 

 it to mean, " the only island that has never experienced an earthquake. 

 Mucianus however has informed us, that down to the time of M. Varro, 

 it has been twice so visited." 



2 From its then becoming SfjXos, "plain," or "manifest." It was 

 after tlie fall of Corinth that Delos became so famous for its commerce. 

 Its bronze was in great request. 



3 From opTv^, " a quail" ; the legend being, that Latona was changed 

 into that bird by Jupiter, in order to eirect her escape tliither from the anger 

 of Juno. Its name of Asteria was derived from tJorpov, " a star," either 

 in consequence of its being devoted to the worship of the great luminary 

 Apollo, or of its being considered by the gods the star of the earth. It was 

 also called Lagia, from Xaytos, " a hare," that animal abounding there ; 

 and Cyna3thus, from KvtoVy " a dog," it being famous for its hounds. 



^ A bare granite rock, not more tlian 500 feet in height. The island 

 is now a mass of ruins ; a great part of its remains having been carried 

 away in the middle ages to Venice and Constantinople. 



5 Divided by a strait of four stadia in width from Delos. Nicias con- 

 nected the two islands by a bridge. Its name of Celadussa was said to 

 be derived from the noise of the waves, /ceXa^os, and of Artemite, from 

 Artemis, or Diana. ^ Now Syra ; famous for its wine and com. 



7 Now Antiparos ; famous for its stalactite grotto, which is not men- 

 tioned by the ancient writers. 



8 Now Pare ; south of Delos and west of Naxos. The ruins of its 

 town are still to be seen at the modem Paroikia. The Parian Chronicle, 

 inscribed on marble, and containing a chronicle of Grecian histon^ from 

 Cecrops, B.C. 1582, to B.C. 264, was fotmd here. It is preserved at Oxford. 



9 Chiefly obtained from a mountain caUed Marpessa. 



